Andreas Strassmeir's Attorney Responds to My Post on OKC

by J. Orlin Grabbe

I posted "Oklahoma City, Government-Paid Neo-Nazis, and the FCC" to the
Internet on February 16, 1997. On July 2, 1997, I received the following
response from Kirk D. Lyons, attorney for Andreas Strassmeir, with respect
to my comments on Andreas Strassmeir.

Kirk Lyons Responds:

1. Andi never arranged to buy anything for Petruskie - he wrote one
inquiry letter. Nothing happened as Lufthansa was not interested in
selling. Have you read the letter? Do you have any proof a multi-million
dollar deal was consumated? I can assure you it wasn't.

2. Stassmeir has never claimed to my knowledge that Petruskie was CIA or
that Petruskie knew Andi's Father.

3. Petruskie is a retired LT. Colonel, not Colonel.

4. Your Millar/Elohim City ideology lecture is all skewed. Have you ever
been there, or talked to any of the rseidents. I have seen Indians there,
Chinese, and even Blacks. How White supremacist can it be?

5. Strassmeir rec'd a SS#, yes, but it did not permit him to work. Any
foreign visitor can get a SS#.

6. Stating a fact that the right wing is easy to penetrate does not make
one an informant, any informed observer can figure that out.

7. If you are going to drive a car in the US, you must have an address
and a driver's licence. What's the big deal?

8. Talk to my associate, Dr. Neill Payne about your silly Texas Light
Infantry myth. Dr. Payne was a member of the TLI, and can account for
Andi's whereabouts the whole time Andi trained with them. Some wannabee
jerk is making up stories, and you and others have swallowed it hook,
line and sinker. No wonder we can't win against the Feds.

9. Lawson has obviously never met Strassmeir, none of the Strassmeir
ID's in KS are credible. Of course how could she tell, while
"entertaining" 200 soldiers over a Summer. Her ID of Brescia is also
flawed.

10. Someone on McVeigh's card called Elohim City on 4/5. That is the only
fact. Joan Millar after first denying the call, later "remembered" that
the call was for Andy, but Andy wasn't there. Andy was strangely never
told that he rec'd a call.

11. We don't know who called our office on 4/18, he didn't ID himself.
Jones investigator later told us it was McVeigh, but he has lied many
times.

12. Andy was not in Kansas at the time of these supposed sightings of
him.

13. Carol Howe's FBI statement makes no reference to casing federal
buildings in OKC with Mahon or Strassmeir. Her accusations are general
not specific.

14. The McCurtain Daily Gazette, never pointed any queries at
Strassmeir, so had nothing to do with his return to Germany.

15. GS-G9 never assisted getting Andy out of the country, and I have
never said that.

16. Who is the "highly placed FBI source," or is JD using that to cloak a
mere guess on his part.

17. The quote from Volkstreue is essentially correct - I wanted to keep
young Germans from joining the Klan. Mahon never even knew of Andi, till
Andi moved to OK.

18. Lady Godiva's ID is BS. The power of suggestion by an unscrupulous
investigator who has already made up his mind, makes the ID's valuless.
For the record Andi was not in Lady Godiva's although the video tape is
compelling evidence that the bomber(s) visited the place. Do we know if
the Bimbos were paid to Id people for a TV crew? Let me talk to them, I
can find out real quick if they're making up stories or on the level.

19. I am 99% certain that McVeigh never visited EC. Those people can't
keep secrets. If McVeigh had really been there I would have heard about
it. Information leaks like a sieve out of EC. Why is Howe the only source
for a McVeigh ID at EC?

20. Strassmeir was not head of security.

21. Your Mueller stuff is too way out for comment. Eaton has never told
me he thought Andi had anything to do with the Mueller homicides. What
evidence Strassmeir & McVeigh were more than one time casual aquaintance?
Your statements here are seriously irresponsible.

23 Lastly, if Strassmeir is a Govt informant (and I his handler) why has
he continually lived in poverty since he got to this country, and even
now is working a construction job? Where is all those federal dollars to
support my lavish lifestyle (10 year old car, 4 kids and I rent)? If I
have learned anything in my 13 years battling the feds in court, their
informants are well paid (like snitch Saint Carol Howe), and they are
paid while they are undercover.